The Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic Board of Trustees announced the appointment of Jon C. Schwartzbauer, DC, as the college’s fourth president, effective August 13.

 A Sherman alumnus, Schwartzbauer brings academic, leadership, and administrative experience, as well as a commitment to vertebral subluxation-centered chiropractic. Most recently he has served the college as vice president for academic affairs and director of the Leadership and Practice Management Institute.
 
Schwartzbauer and his wife, Mitzi, a clinical sciences faculty member at Sherman, ran Schwartzbauer Straight Chiropractic Center in Mahtomedi, MN, for five years before he joined the Sherman College faculty in 2002. The couple also served as team chiropractors for the St. Paul Saints, a minor league baseball team in their home state of Minnesota.
 
Schwartzbauer was selected in early 2006 to lead the launch and development of Sherman College’s Leadership and Practice Management Institute (LPMI). As LPMI director, he worked to create a culture of ever-improving leadership within the chiropractic profession. He instituted Sherman College’s Success Colloquia, a series of seminars designed to enhance leadership and practice management skills for members of the chiropractic profession as well as Sherman students and faculty. He also laid the groundwork for a student leadership program on campus.
 
He was named vice president for academic affairs in December 2006. In addition to the doctor of chiropractic degree he earned in 1997, Schwartzbauer holds a B.S. from Excelsior College.
 
Schwartzbauer says his priorities include increasing enrollment and fund-raising at the college.